Clean It Up
UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: ronnie paton on February 04, 2013, 07:06:43 pm
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what is the best chemical for cleaning/restoring cladding
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What type of cladding, what material, whats the dirt / staining
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Aluminium I guess it's weathered and has faded in colour
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Is it a powder coated aluminium?
If its gone flat, sounds like a cutting compound needed, like t-cut...
Removing algae and general detritus from cladding can be done with hot wfp, or a combo of wfp and tfr (non-caustic).
Maybe get some pics Ron?
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ill get some pics little out of area but were hoping to secure window cleaning and its a large student accomadation.
its not dirt that reach and wash would budge its faded
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ill get some pics little out of area but were hoping to secure window cleaning and its a large student accomadation.
its not dirt that reach and wash would budge its faded
Which area Ron?
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ill get some pics little out of area but were hoping to secure window cleaning and its a large student accomadation.
its not dirt that reach and wash would budge its faded
Sounds like a t-cut job then!
UV rays fade the top layer of paint/powder coat or ally, and it will need that top coat cutting back to fresh shiny stuff.
I'm no expert, only ever really dealt with the usual grime that will pole off.
Did come up against something similar which had rubber run marks stained the ally powder coated cladding, and nothing other than a cutting compound would shift it.
We had to pass up the job as it would take a month off a cherry picker, if not more.
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nottingham pal
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Ronnie
We have just cleaned 3.5 sides of a supermarket, took 37 man days. Cleaned by hand.
It was aluminium - powder coated.
Autosmart G101
The client and myself were gobsmacked at the end result. It looked like new cladding.
Simply spray on, brush with handheld brushes and rinse off, before it dries.
Grab 5 litres from somewhere and give it a go - completely amazing.
I have the photos of Archer road on my website
Rob ;D
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has usual a truley helpful post,
thank you going to check your site out then get 5 kitres and then do a spot clean!
they cant say no if i do a spot clean and leave it looking like new!!!
thanks
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rob is it the picture were a suare has been cleaned??? white?
could i send you a pic of the cladding and see if you think this would be a suitable product
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If they just want it cleaning, your chem cost will more than likely be lower. Restoring then different ball game. Once they see a cleaned patch they'll be over the moon with just that.
We mainly use caustic degreasers or hypo. This one below took 15 minutes to spray on hypo from top across and down via ventura and wash off. The hypo ran straight through it, but that's 'cos it's only algae. Traffic film the caustic degreaser we use is shiit hot, £25 for 20 litres lifts off and nice rinse.
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More from this job here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151140892733187.463572.198312493186&type=1&l=9c97bbf3fe
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that looks sh it hot, defo restoration ill put a pic up if i can.
were you doing hyde market the other month?
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(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1360098840_photo.JPG)
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that looks sh it hot, defo restoration ill put a pic up if i can.
were you doing hyde market the other month?
Yeh a few months ago, did you pass? We were there an hour to test clean removal of vdw paving mortar resin that they got on the slabs, messy gits. Anyway we booked the job in then apparently Tameside Council cancelled it.
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here is some cladding cleaning we did using extension pole and turbo nozzle
http://youtu.be/Vct_NGGl6pc
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what pole is that trevor
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ye passed thought you was doing the job, typical tameside spend millions on doing iyt up for no reason then dont get it cleaned up
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what pole is that trevor
it is one i made myself from a gardner clx
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Nice vid Trev, nice sea breeze on that one! ;)
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Ronnie
It is on the blog, white building.
It cost us about £250.00 in chemical and was a right pain but the cost to the client of respraying was tens of thousands.
Rob ;D
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Try this company www.tensid.com they have specialist cleaners and restorers